Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being… — Václav Havel

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning — in other words, of absurdity — the more energetically meaning is sought.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have — by disrupting that order — a way of surprising.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and … often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.