Gao Xingjian Quotes

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

If anybody ever finds out where your district is, they'll beat you.

I'm a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end up with my picture in the press.

I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it.

I was successfully hiding from the world on Broadway for about 25 years.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

Hide me from day's garish eye.

I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.

I am private.

I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

I want to be invisible.

I just wanted to have a private life.

I don't want anybody to know anything about me.

I used to follow people home. I just like being anonymous so much that I would follow people home because they didn't know who I was, and I could watch them. I know how that sounds. I could not exist but observe.

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.