At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

Life has always treated me well. I therefore won't mind leaving it behind.

I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.

My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.

It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.

Laughter does not please the mighty.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

Love is the Creator’s greatest invention and, as St. Ambrose said, that is especially true when our entire spirit and body are involved in this extraordinary rite, which is after all the rite of our own birth and of our descent.