Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

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.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

We are at a point now where people respect us and respect our work - the guys want to sit down and watch women's matches.

I love to smile.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

Men who write love letters don't live in this century.