Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

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.

Living life dangerously is the key to recognizing that you can do whatever you want when you stop limiting what you believe in.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

togetherness brings progress.

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.