Aldous Huxley Quotes

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

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

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.

We're always aiming for storytelling that feels a bit surreal.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.