Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

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.

How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

For love of country, they accepted death.

I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one

If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.

I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.

We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality!

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.