One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.

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.

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.

We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate our superiority, because no one challenges it.

If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

The Law which governs all life is God.

I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."

So often, you don't get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you're on set.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.