Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

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.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Prayer is like a business, the you put in more input the greater the output becomes.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

We want a plan for a clean energy future...an end to global warming...Moms know about sustainable energy. After all, mother love is an unending supply and it keeps kids healthy.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

Total commitment to family and total commitment to career is possible, but fatiguing.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.