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.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

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.

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

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

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