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

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.

I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.