Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

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.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

Things never go smoothly.

We live in an era where it ain't about dope rhymes. When beef is online, and how big is your co-sign.

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

If the door is locked, try the window.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is painful.

If you are not following your dreams then you're not truly living, and if you are, you must completely believe in your journey!

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.