Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.