Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.

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.

Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?

Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.

Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them-it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.