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

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.