More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

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

O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

The level of outbreak is beyond anything we’ve seen - or even imagined.