Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

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.

How much your life sucks, or how awesome your life is, is really all determined by how much fear controls your life.

Don't allow your old self to distract you from a better version of you that you could become.

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.

At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

I grew up in Plano, Texas.

Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

A pair of Blahniks and a girl can vanquish anything