We are ruled by quotations.

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 prefer male enemies to female ones

If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?'

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

It may be over but it won't stop there, I am here for you if you'd only care

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

If you think, you can become successful and you are willing to learn and work at success, one day you will become successful.

I need to see my friends or I'm gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna stay home and work.

When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.