“Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.”

“Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.”

“As if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since to be witnessed was to perform, and performance was inherently false since it invited expectation.”

“The alienated audiences was one that was aware of the performance as an arbitrary construction of the real, of the difference between players and characters, and was therefore aware that the people and incidents on stage were there to perform social an ideological actions that could only be understood in terms of their relationship to the dominant ideology. Alienation produced a thinking, interrogative socially aware audience.”

“A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.”

“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”