The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.