Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.

Don't ever run away from your problems. Chase after them like a crazy person till they're too afraid to come near you again.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.

You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.

The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.

My parents were sixty years married.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.