Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.

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.

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity I'd rather do my work and go home.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

I go to my parents' over Christmas. I definitely do, but I don't see it as a Christmas because during Christmas there was also a Viking holiday. So I just to choose to see it as that!

The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.