"The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anti-social being, a strange animal that one must either love or hate, but whom one cannot ignore."

"There are wounds that bleed in the soul, not in the body."

"The theater is a school of tears and laughter, and a free forum where man can question old or erroneous norms and explain with living examples the eternal laws of the heart and the feelings of man."

"The duende is a power, not a working; a struggle, not a thought. I have heard an old master guitarist say: 'The duende is not in the throat; the duende surges up from the soles of the feet.'"

"I want to be a poet, not a man of letters. I want to build, not to destroy."