The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, th…

- Eugene Ionesco

I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words …

- Eugene Ionesco

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

- Eugene Ionesco

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

- Eugene Ionesco

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

- Eugene Ionesco

Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.

- Eugene Ionesco

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

- Eugene Ionesco

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. T…

- Eugene 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 obsess…

- Eugene Ionesco