God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful...I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sun rise.

Even more blood welled up and spilled down his arm, splattering onto the ground.“Camille’s carpet, ” Magnus protested.“It’s blood, ” said Will. “She ought to be thrilled.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

We are still a people in danger. And yet I urge us not to get addicted to it.

Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others?

No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.