Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

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.

Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places.

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

And in this relentlessly unfolding series of interactions, the U.S. has played a very distinctive role, which most Americans have been either shielded from or simply unaware of.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

It's just difficult to release music constantly while also constantly being on the road.

The power has to be in your desire to see everyone thrive.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God.