Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

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.

Your life has tremendous value to you. It becomes a precious diamond for humanity to enjoy when you donate it for the betterment of others.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.

You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

Fage does not make great yogurt.

Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.