The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

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.

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

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.