That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

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.

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

By words the mind is winged.

Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature.

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.