Alfred Jarry

“Why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are?”

“Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions.”

“We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well.”

“God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.”

“Merdre!”

“It is because you are idiots that you are peasants.”

“The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything... rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.”

“Our lives are without rhyme or reason, and to cry over spills is to spill more.”

“I call 'Pataphysics the science of the particular, the science of exceptions.”

“By my green candle!”

“What a beautiful thing, war!”