People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

In the political confusion and the torrid heat, I convinced myself that Madrid was the world's stomach and that I had been chosen for the task of restoring this digestive organ to health.

The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say -- one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.

You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

I have always thought -- and a lot of people won't agree with this -- that we're incredibly driven by fear, basically. Aren't we? It's awful to be frightened. I think it's a very strong, very powerful thing, fear.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

On the outskirts of our sad savage town, I was overcome by a feeling of profound melancholy, though I fought it off by stuffing a large amount of jasmine essence up my nose.

Everyone's had an interesting life. Unless they're interested in business or something.

I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.

I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason.

A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people and the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.

The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a transparent monument dreaming of an electric breast, and gazed without eyes, with a pleasant and invisible smile, into the inexhaustible supply of silence that surrounds our star.

Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all.

If you are in a condition of inferiority, I think it affects you very much creatively. You have incredible visions but you might be too bashful to show them. Your creativity becomes inhibited. I've always found women as individuals as stupid or as intelligent as men. I've never had any reason to find them otherwise.