It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

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.

When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them.

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.