When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.