Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

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.

Failure is not an option. Keep going!

You disregard God when you disregard His people

The only way you improve is to try new things.

Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

It is not easy to dress well.

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

I said, 'Well, how much space do I have?' And they said, 'Well, you know, it's the Internet.'

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.