Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

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.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

I'm a workaholic because I love to play, if that makes sense.

Sometimes you get the sense that the Creator is getting to that point of "Yeah, we might have to reboot."