I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

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

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.