People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.