“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”

“I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.”

“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”

“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”