Childhood is the world of miracle and wonders as if a creation of rose, balked in light, out of darkness, utterly new and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one had got used to existence, one has become an adult.

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic. It is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

The true nature of things, truth itself, can be revealed to us only through fantasy, which is more realistic than all the realisms.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

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.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

All theatre is absurd.

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.