A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

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've always been suspicious of collective truths.