The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

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.

Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.

Oh, the best dancers know/what grace/every stumble/contains.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.

Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

As a quarterback, can you throw it where you are looking?

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.