The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human.
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
Chess is a matter of vanity.
I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.