I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

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.

Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted. Everyone has a chance at it. We’re equals after all. There are no pawns, no kings, and no queens. We’re all humans and we all have the same value.

A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer

It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

What if you, too, were to greet every interaction in your life with the question 'What's the potential opportunity that this is?'

If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over" - Suze Simon in the Mediator

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.