I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

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

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

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.

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

When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.

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.