We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali