Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

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.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

We fail to succeed

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .

Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.