The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

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 cult is a religion with no political power.

One: I am proud to say that my vampires do not sp

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

I don't really have any dream roles. It's just things, which come up.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing

When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.