We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

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.

Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

Resist any form of oppression.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.

I don't dislike anybody.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.

It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.

When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?