Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

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.

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world.

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I'm usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

I am just a plain, common man.

You have this special place - America, you want it to remain special, you better find out why it became special.