A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

My change of heart isn't about flaking out

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it.

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?