I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

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.

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.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Life becomes perfect if I look at it through my imperfect perceptions.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

The revery alone will do If bees are few.

When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.

When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams.

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.