To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.