One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i. e. , in an existential relation to life without intermission.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day.
The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.
As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.
Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment. . . They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore. ' And of this duration there is no end. . . Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.
If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.
