Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

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.

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

There is no hope but in prayer.

Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.