Perhaps 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.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

A 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.

I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don't have to work as hard at my primary school.

The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.

The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.