A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

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.

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.

Never forget the first three letters of confidence.

The most important decision you will ever make is the decision you make about eternity.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people.

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].

I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.