The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.