Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

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 loved him... much more than I liked him. And therein was the beginning of the end.

He takes my hand and says, 'Let's make a world.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.

I saw with my eyes people with and without purpose, people with the purpose know where they are going and the others follow the flow!?

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

I have no boss but my conscience.