The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.