Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

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.

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.

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

If it isn't broken don't try to fix it

Possibility of enjoying life makes death feel terrible.

Without coffee something’s missing

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person." - Gackt

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]