Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

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.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Whose are all these ghosts?” she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine. “Oh, ” said Geraldine, “I think they might be mine...?

I have been hurt so bad and I still love so hard, I admire my heart for that.

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.

I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.

The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.

People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.