Quotes By Author: Eugène Ionesco

“Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.”

“Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I’d be a politician.”