I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

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.

Depressed states can make us feel like we're constantly fighting against ourselves but we must engage in that fight for ourselves.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.

I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.