Who said “The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the…”?

“Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.”

“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.”

“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”

“After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.”

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

“There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.”

“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising.”

“Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.”