I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

An unpredictable, faithful and objective hazard seems to have systematically singled out my life to make what are normally uneventful incidents violent, phenomenal and memorable.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

I tried sex once with a woman and it was Gala. It was overated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Frederico Garcia Lorca. It was very painful.

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.

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.

Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.