It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.

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.

The American Dream became America’s god

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos, ' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

In the day of prosperity be joyful but in the day of adversity consider.

Everything is connected to everything else.

I just want to be remembered as someone who wanted people to think free and wanted people to be free, whether it's at the end of the day, or at the end of the mortal coil.

Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.