In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

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.

So just let me deal with it, I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time. I’m a great multitasker.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.

Use your human intelligence in the best way you can; transform your emotions in a positive way.

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.