When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?

If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.

You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.