A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way.

As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.