The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

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.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame