We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

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