I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

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.

When she remembered a summer it would be this one. When she remembered love it would be his.

In other words, he was the tree in the forest that silently fell--when no one was around to be crushed.

Oh, I wonder if there's another way.

I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.

If somebody has a question, they only have to ask one of us because we share a brain. We seriously have never said something different than the other one.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

I don't consider myself an expert in the why.

Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.