I think I have a lot of crazy layers.
The truly creative people tend to be outliers.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.
Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.
Proper stupidity is fascinating.
I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.
I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?
I think it would be fun to walk around in Bill Murray's mind for a while.
What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.
To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.
'The Cauliflower' is full of these bizarre anecdotes, some of them petty, others moving or whimsical, as its many characters try to make sense of the universe in which they live - a universe strange, febrile, and utterly unique.
I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.
With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.
For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.
I'm interested in extremes, in many ways.
I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.
