A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

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.

Sun and snow is an Angel’s glow, but storm and rain? That’s a Demon’s bane.

To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.