I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

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.

...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

I can see, I can hear, I can smell, I can taste, I can feel, I can think. So, I can understand that we are surrounded by a great wonder.

Can one man's madness be another's real life?

Hope arouses as nothing else can arouse a passion for the possible.

A prototype is a question embodied

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.