It Is Either Easy Or Impossible.

Many People Do Not Reach Their Eighties Because They Spend Too Much Time In Their Forties.

Every Morning Upon Awakening, I Experience A Supreme Pleasure: That Of Being Salvador Dali, And I Ask Myself, Wonderstruck, What Prodigious Thing Will He Do Today, This Salvador Dali.

Let The Labyrinth Of Wrinkles Be Furrowed In My Brow With The Red-hot Iron Of My Own Life, Let My Hair Whiten And My Step Become Vacillating, On Condition That I Can Save The Intelligence Of My Soul - Let My Unformed Childhood Soul, As It Ages, Assume The Rational And Esthetic Forms Of An Architecture, Let Me Learn Just Everything That Others Cannot Teach Me, What Only Life Would Be Capable Of Marking Deeply In My Skin!

Just As I Am Astonished That A Bank Clerk Never Eats A Cheque, So Too Am I Astonished That No Painter Before Me Ever Thought Of Painting A Soft Watch.

I Seated Ugliness On My Knee, And Almost Immediately Grew Tired Of It.