“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”

“Stop being an escapist! Stop being a surface liver who stays right in the froth of the surface. There are millions of these people, and they never find anything really worthwhile. Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.”

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

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

“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.”

“Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.”

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

“The seeker for wisdom must... be prepared to delve deeply, to discover, and to interpret according to the classical keys, the numberless treasures of spiritual and occult wisdom and law which lie beneath the surface of all allegorical writings, littered with debris though that surface may appear to be.”

“We make choices, decisions, as long as we keep to the surface of things; once we reach the depths, we can neither choose nor decide, we can do nothing but regret the surface…”