Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

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.

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.

To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

In order to finish first, you first have to finish.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.