If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

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.

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.

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

I have this beast. He comes and goes at will.Silence.He's very powerful.Silence.He has control over me.Silence.I want to come and go at will.Silence.I want to be the powerful one.

The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.

Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.~"Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic.

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.