The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

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.

Does life teach us anything more, I wondered, than not to cry over all there is to cry about?

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records.

(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: "You don't have to get out of trouble if you don't get into trouble."

The dirty little secret, folks, is Obama is not only for occupying Wall Street. He also wants to occupy Main Street.

I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.