I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

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.

If our focus is on how we are supposed to feel then we deny ourselves the joy of freedom in how we truly feel.

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.

All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.