Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.