What we need is to use what we 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.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen.

I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

Once you feel that you've learned some skills and you know how to make records, the next thing is, "Do we ever get to make one that people will really like?" Because then we'll have something to do.

You're always homesick.