God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

- Alfred Jarry

To be weird! That is my goal!

- Alfred Jarry

It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-l…

- Alfred Jarry

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

- Alfred Jarry

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

- Alfred Jarry

The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.

- Alfred Jarry

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

- Alfred Jarry

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

- Alfred Jarry

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to tr…

- Alfred Jarry