It’s a play about the life and martyrdom of a modern saint, who has just been canonized by the Church — or is it beatified? Which comes first? I’m no… - Eugène Ionesco

Vorbitul a tout propos şi hors de propos după modelul lui Paul Sterian, Ion I. Cantacuzino sau Emil Cioran este foarte hazardat si trebuie neapărat susţinut de graţia primului, silueta impozantă a secundului sau de naivitatea teribilă a celui de al treilea.

Politicians are either there or here or totally at home. Their finitude is more than sufficient unto itself. I don’t mean to imply that I’m any better than they which does not mean that they are any better than I. Which doesn’t mean anything at all.

The purpose of the Collège was the demolition of culture, even of surrealism, which they considered too organized. But make no mistake, these people were graduates of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and highly cultured. Their method was based on puns and practical jokes—le canular. There is a great tradition of puns in Anglo-Saxon literature — Shakespeare, Alice in Wonderland — but not in French. So they adopted it. They believed that the science of sciences is the pataphysique and its dogma, le canular.