And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the automatic rise and fall in the annual birthrate. When she spoke of the great figures in art, he traced the chain of borrowings that links these figures to one another.