The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.