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.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

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.

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

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

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.