...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.