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

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.

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.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

I try to put my culture in all my music, as much as I can.

It's good to be in love.

If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.