The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

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.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.