I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

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.

Some Laws were meant to be broken.

What questions do I want my audience to ask?

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.