It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices.

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.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

A lifestyle of love makes reigning sweet and the best

Your fright is in your lies but your delight is in your ties, So better get together and fight for the right.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.

[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing.