Life is not significant details, illuminated by 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.

Doing better is creativity, doing faster is creativity, doing smarter is creativity, doing right is creativity.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

I never sing under the shower, I keep it for the stage.

All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.

...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.