To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

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.

GOD is so clear, He is invisible.

Maybe love isn’t meant to be bliss never-ending. Maybe love is unwavering support and befriending.

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.