Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

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 cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

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.

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.