Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

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.

The enemy fights the hardest when you are closest to your breakthrough. Know that your best days are ahead and no weapon formed will prosper.

A victorious life is as a result of a correct way of thinking

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

How does the weakness of the dollar affect your business?