The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays… — Václav Havel

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

We introduced a new model of behavior: don't get involved in diffuse general ideological polemics with the center, to whom numerous concrete causes are always being sacrificed; fight "only" for those concrete causes, and be prepared to fight for them unswervingly, to the end. In other words, don't get mixed up in backroom wheeling and dealing, but play an open game.

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