“Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.”
“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
“The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.”
“One of the things that confuses me is never really knowing when something comes up from my past, whether it really happened that way, or if that was the way it seemed to be at the time, or if I’m inventing it. I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.”
“When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.”