
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
en
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
en
“Avez-vous la monnaie de ma pièce? Personne au monde ne peut avoir la monnaie de ma pièce.”
Deuil pour deuil, 1924
If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line.
en
Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)
Diogène Laërce, Vies, doctrines et sentences des philosophes illustres
To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw — to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we were not afraid of blackening our teeth or riddling our lungs with cancer — if we were a dauntless race of men with strong digestions — we would be able to devour life without the aid of these over-civilized devices.
en
The Naked Civil Servant (Fonctionnaire du nu)
“Nous voulons de la vie au théâtre et du théâtre dans la vie.”
Journal, 1887-1910