Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

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 be controlled by the tradition of men

Don’t give up on yourself, your dreams and your family.

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

We must develop energy independence we must Make It In America.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.

Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.