A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

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

In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... 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.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

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.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.