All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

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.

What we believed, we become.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.

I'm a former hippie; I did drugs back when they were healthy. The only time I ever did LSD was at Disney World. I didn't go there - it came to me. I was Snow White.

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.

You have a choice every moment of the day to open yourself up. And when you do that, it opens the channels of love.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.