I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.