Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

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.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

A definite recipe for success is when you take persistent action on a strong definite goal.

My blood makes noise. And I’m saying this now, because I have a strange gut feeling that it will be silenced someday soon.

Hope and Happiness Hope is grief's best music.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.

You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being.

Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.