Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

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.

History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.

...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

I go into the office in the morning, I sue Barack Obama, and then I go home.

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.