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

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

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

My specialty is detached malevolence.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.