The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?

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.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sometimes what seems to be the ending of something is really the beginning of Everything.

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.