Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Only that which can be switched, can be.

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

If your immature, I'm out the door.

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.