In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

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.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.

My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.

What's the worst that could happen?

Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.