Quotes by : Eugène Ionesco

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions.....

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?~Jack or The Submission

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every....

You can only predict things after they have happened.

All men die in solitude all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells....

BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? 

DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros?....

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

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

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account....

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling....