Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

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.

Perspective is the key to everything.

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.