Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Everything that you can imagine is going on is going on.

Ironic things are interesting.

Fantasy is the only truth.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.