People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

Nothing is confused except the mind.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

The purpose of art is mystery.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

... Once a penguin finds its perfect other penguin, they stay together pretty much forever.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

I always try to have a bigger picture view of my career. But that didn't mean that I didn't cry about not getting jobs.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.