Desire has no history.

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.

Smiling for no reason at all is the reason i'm smiling

No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

I know that I am floating on the benefit of other people. I do not deserve the blessings that I've gotten.

Nature never gives everything at once.

Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

I just called to say, 'I love you.