Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

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.

Repent heart, rebirth of spirit.

Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

Aske much to have a little.

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.

Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes.

We're all aware that Hillary Clinton has a problem with the truth. Even among politicians, and that does not make her unique in the swamp that is Washington. But Hillary stands out.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.