“A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing”

“We have not the time to take our time.”

“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”

“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.”

“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”

“Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.”

“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”

“Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.”

“You can only predict things after they've happened.”

“Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means a complexity of words movements gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.”