The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

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.

A wolf only attends a rabbit’s funeral to eat its young.

I don't see the point in worrying now that I a half-dead and not when I was okay.

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

As the oceans go, so do we.

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.

Frankly, I think that fur on a man is difficult to pull off. If it's the warmth you're after, then I'd go with a fur-lined coat - it won't show.