The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

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.

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

People expect more and more every time.

When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.

If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.