To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

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

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

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.

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