We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
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Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.
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The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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