Art is seduction, not rape.

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’s not over if you’re still here, ” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.

The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.

It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are

Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.

Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.