"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to tim…"

"However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents …"

"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones."

"All true language is incomprehensible, Like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth."

"Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being."

"The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of…"

"The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of …"

"With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows."

"Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life."

"If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me o…"