The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.