There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

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.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.

Our military, police forces, fire fighters ... those are the real Hall of Famers.

It's tough having the last name Rickles. Luckily, my kids handled it great.

There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.

President Obama finally has his own personal Twitter account. Even John McCain said, 'Welcome to the Internet, grandpa.'

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.