Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

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.

Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history.

Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts!  surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become.

Kumquats?I've had a few.But then again, tofu dementia.

Flowers make me irrationally happy.

I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information.

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.