What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.
Arthur AdamovA stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.
Arthur AdamovIt is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.
Arthur AdamovThe reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.
Arthur AdamovPerhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.
Arthur Adamov