People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.