I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

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

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

[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.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

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