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.

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.

Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other’s bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.

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

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

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.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.