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.

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

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.

It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.

Life is set up to bring you every needed situation in its own right time.

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.