Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

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.

Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.

It is quite ironic that those calling the loudest for 'morality' are typically the most immoral of all.

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

Nobody's going to tell me that my dog doesn't love me. That's crazy talk.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.