There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.

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.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

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

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.