I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.