All I want for my birthday is another birthday.
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater. . . The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there.
To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth.
Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.
I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.