I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.

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.

Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels.

Focus on the positives is what I teach my kids. The rest takes care of itself.

Kids are anarchy writ large.

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.