"Theater of cruelty" means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the ...cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third, Were axioms to him, who'd never heard... Of any world where promises were kept, Or one could weep because another wept.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Remember When cruelty, metal, public, uncomplex,... Trampled you obviously and every hour. . . ." (Now cruelty flaunts diplomas, is elite, Delicate, has polish, knows how to be discreet) ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What did you hit her for? I'll let you in on something, she's a lush, the lady. After she bends the elbow a few times, she be...gins to see things. Rats, roaches, snakes, bats, you know. A sock in the kisser's the only thing that'll bring her out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect--and to have it ill treated, ...is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »