All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

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

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.