Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

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.

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.

Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

Everyones got dreams, find the courage to follow your own.

I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.

My son asked for very little - a kickstand, with a motorcycle attached.

Moviemaking is a hard job and this industry is crazy. You never know what is going to happen.

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.