The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

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.

Affection is invaluable. I will accept your heart as payment and change your mind.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

There are many roads to Mecca.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Women have to work exceptionally hard.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.