The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.