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

[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.

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

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.

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

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.