The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

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.

...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...

The spirits made her sick, and I don't just mean the Scotch.

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?

A twinge of wonderment that might charm the most cynical of New York dance fans…They raise the bar, and then they jump over it.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.

The day was gray, the color of Europe.

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.