The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.

By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.

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

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

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

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.