It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

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

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.