The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

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.

. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business.

Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It's about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them.

Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible.

You'll never see it my way, because you're not me!

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.