“Transcending reality by exploring it one story at a time...”
“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.”
“Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...”
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality, the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
“The poem no longer transcended reality.”