Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

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.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Hearts can break and never make a sound.

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

I draw whatever hits me.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.