The complex develops out of the simple.

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Death is pleasure when Heaven is sure

Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.