I didn’t get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I’m not.
I didn’t get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I’m not.
I didn’t get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I’m not.
I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.
In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don’t want to.
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That’s a completely different thing.
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, ‘I’m your mirror; if I can…
All my inspiration comes from life. That’s how it never stops, in a way.
I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, ‘God, she loved life so much.
If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.
For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight ‘all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad’ attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had…
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.