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.

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.