We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!