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

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

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.

The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.

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.

[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.

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.