We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.
