Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about 'Backstage,' and so I got my school in Pennsylvania to subscribe. And there was an audition for a tour of 'The Sound of Music,' and I got the job. Deferred my admission to college just to go on tour.