You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

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

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.