Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

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.

Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.

What is across there? Lykos said.Death, whatever that is. Said Calidus.

Human rights is a numbers game. Who is going to care if only 20 people pitch for a protest?

Spending is an addiction.

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.

Don't hope for a life without problems. An easy life results in a judgmental and lazy mind.

I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.