Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

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.

After sounding a lot like other people in my decades of past I have found my own voice when I realized I needed Christ and in so doing I am becoming just like Him as time marches on.

I've discovered I'm a strong and capable person. I can handle almost anything except being alone with this.

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

I love California. It definitely represents wild freedom.

It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.

I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.

Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.