“So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.”

“What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.”

“Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think ...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.”

“I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.”

“Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?”

“At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.”

“Someone told me once, ‘It’s time to get you a pair of overalls, boy.’ But I don’t believe in summing up nothin’ – I let my experiences speak for themselves – and even if I did, a synopsis should be singular. That’s why every time I go out to work in the fields, I work naked. It lets my neighbors speak of my experiences for me.”