“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.”

“The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess. ”

“Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.”

“Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised”

“I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.”

“Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft.”

“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.”