There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

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.

It’s worth burning myself out like a matchso long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch.

We are brothers and sisters. We are one sacred family.

What I know about you, Henry, ” he said. “Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment.

You can't truly understand a fact by watching its' true story version.

None of us are God - just His servants.

I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.

You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.

I'm honestly flattered and humbled that anyone would show interest in something I've done, forever.