Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant

Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned." That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.