“Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.”
“Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”
“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
“But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?”
“...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times?”
“Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.”