“I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.”

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”

“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?”

“I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.”

“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”