All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

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

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.