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

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.

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

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

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

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.