I am not capitulating.

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.

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

Pains are not to be relievedSorrows are not to fade awaya slight change in the visionmay bring a new experience

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying.