He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

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.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.