All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

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.

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.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eternity is the stopped heart of Time.

Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.

You don't need proof. You just need an inclination

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer.

Every season, really, has their own chemistry.