Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

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.

All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature.

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.