Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

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.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about-enjoying things.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"