The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication

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.

You should shower," I said. "Right now." "I smell that bad?" (Patch) Actually, he smelled that good.

Jesus set an example for us to follow: a life of loving, obedient service.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.