Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

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.

How much your life sucks, or how awesome your life is, is really all determined by how much fear controls your life.

Every time I pass for a bad time I think of you and I forget everything. Do not think I’m exaggerating, that’s because I love you.

My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

Believing in yourself you gain confidence, which allows you to relax. Relaxation is one of the most important parts about acting.

Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted.

The sinful emotions are stirred most deeply by self-love.