Quotes by Robert Wilson

“The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.”

“No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.”

“Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?”

“I basically lost everything. By the time we knew we had to get out, there was no time. I brought my laptop, my cell phone, a change of clothes and a pair of shoes and some of my boots.”

“You just have no idea what it was like trying to get out of there,”

“Comparative advantage in the production of many of these requirements therefore lies outside China, with suppliers such as Rio Tinto.”

“On local issues, it is extremely important to run as an independent so that you can do what is right for the city rather than following a political agenda,”

“I dont like politics per-se, ... but I want get in there try and do something good, if that is possible.”

“I got into paying attention to cities and when I moved downtown I would go into stores that were more mom and pop, so I would get to meet the people and talk to them, ... A lot of them pushed me and said I should run for council. Also, a lot of my old bosses said I should get into politics because I seem like a person who would care enough to do what is right.”

“Right now council is a part-time job but for me [but] I would want it to be a full-time job, ... Im going to take it very seriously and spend a lot of my extra time out in the community to try and figure out some of the problems that arent being heard.”

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture imagine where things can happen in space.

Ive always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, were going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

My work should be seen as poetry.