The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

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.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

If and when the world does not meet your expectations, pick up a pen and paper and create your own.

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate.

A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England