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

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

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.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

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

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