An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

Nothing is confused except the mind.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

The purpose of art is mystery.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.

Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!

My kids don't drink and don't smoke. For me, that's a great blessing.

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood.

Passion doesn't create commitment; commitment creates passion. To what are you committed?

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.