The purpose of art is mystery.

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.

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

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.

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.

When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.

These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

You should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.