Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

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.

If you know who you are, it reduces your fear of trials

The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.

Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didn’t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

I have always believed that if we do well, we must also do something to help others in society.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.