(When asked if he took drugs) "I do not -DO- drugs! I -AM- drugs!" "There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction." "What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust." "The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad." "Do you know...? Every day, I see new things in the shape of stones." "I do not understand why man should be capable of so little fantasy." (When asked what was his destiny): "To become classic!" "I'm in a permanent state of intellectual erection." "Beauty is but the conscious sum of all our perversions." "Take me, I am the drug. Take me, I am the hallucinogenic." "What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it." "Everything leads me to think that, in the near future, reality will be considered exclusively as a mere state of depression and inactivity of the mind." The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.