A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

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.

You'll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them.

I keep running away, As if from something, As if to something. I keep running away, As if from myself, As if to myself.

I'm learning that you can be comfortable and still look beautiful.

Everything becomes an opportunity to evolve and grow.

It's probably good for your body and brain to get moving occasionally.

Zen has no business with ideas.

From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

How can a you hit and think at the same time?