It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

Actors are athletes of the heart.