I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.