It is passivity that dulls feeling.

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.

Open the fridge and putMy heart on a plate.I'm just as you leftme, and I taste even betterleftover.

Despite the heart numbing frost, my soul is blooming like spring.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

I will be lord over myself.

It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!

The hardest thing about being famous is that ... in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. ... You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.