"[I] believe in general in death but in the death of Dali absolutely not. [I] believe in my death becoming very – almost impossible."

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

"I was probably a first version of myself, but conceived too much in the absolute."

"Paintings is only one of the means of my expression of my total genius, which exists when I write and when I live, when in some way or other I manifest my magic. A painting is such a minor thing compa…"