One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

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.

I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me but nobody listens!

There is one basic cause of all effects.

There are going to be ups and downs in any relationship. It's a team.

Even breathing is a contribution.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude, ...But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food.

A lot has transpired in my life.