...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

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.

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.

Even though some people give you no respect, be intelligent when you put them in check, cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way.