All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

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.

It was a real party of swells.

There was no way a world as corrupted as this could be saved or all of the wrongdoers punished.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

Everything which is human is alien to me.

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself'.

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

Snow has turned the world into a cemetery. But the world already was a cemetery and the snow has only come to announce it.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.