Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.

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.

He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.

Treat objections as requests for further information.

I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.