Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in…

The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the…

— Hermann Hesse

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage,…

— Martin McDonagh

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her…

— Louise Erdrich

“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future…

— Gary Shteyngart

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the…

— Hermann Hesse

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities…

— Jeanette Winterson

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

— Beatrice Wood

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

— Herbert Blau

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

— Augusto Boal

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

— Simon McBurney

No good end exists for any dictator!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

— John Frusciante

Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered.

— Douglas Adams

I have to admit that I get quite emotional listening to the amazing talent that exists in the New York subways.

— Lisa O'Hare

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.…

— Hermann Hesse