The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

Everything that is contradictory creates life