I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

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.

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

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Actors are athletes of the heart.

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.