“It is useless to seek the soul of things beneath their surface, for their surface is their soul.”

“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”

“Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.”

“A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.”

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”

“Never leap into a lake without knowing what’s beneath the surface.”

“The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion — life. … Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.”

“The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.”

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”

“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”