The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

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.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

Passion is an intense feeling of conviction and a strong desire or devotion to an activity or concept.

Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.

I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.

We learn by rearranging what we know.

Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.