There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

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

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

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

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.