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

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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

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

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.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

There's a feat tonight! There'll be dancing.""A feast?" Kachka asked. "Who are we sacrificing?

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

Spain believe in what they do; they have absolute confidence in their style of play.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black