“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

“Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.”

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

“My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)”

“Together the, two ingredients—a perceived incongruity with a point and an appropriate emotional climate—seem to be both necessary and sufficient for humor.”

“I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”

“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”

“You believe that I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.”

“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”