"I have no theories; I just write music."

"I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear."

"The theater is a school of vice, but also a school of virtue."

"The theater is a place where one goes to forget oneself."

"Copying the truth may be a good thing, but inventing the truth is better, much better."