The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

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.

It was weird the way you could be friends with someone but not really know the ugly parts of their lives. We all had our secrets, I supposed.

The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.

Lies make for pathetic allies.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.