And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.

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.

Drugs to mehave always beena pretty girl with a sly smilebeckoning mewith a finger down the dark path of a fork in the road.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.