So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

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.

Just not a big fan of dogmatic rituals or gatherings. Like I put faith in god, I give a truckload of significance to karma, character and compassion.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you.

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

True understanding is the spur of genius

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.