...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.

— Alfred Jarry

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

— Alfred Jarry

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

— Alfred Jarry

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

— Alfred Jarry

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

— Alfred Jarry