If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.