People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

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.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

When I hear the word 'culture,' I get out my revolver.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

The only person I have hurt is myself.

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

Smoking is a dying habit.