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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

"My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world."

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."

"It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me."

"We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills."
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"As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional."

"All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language."

"Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience."

"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."

"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."

"From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything."

"I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky."
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