The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

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.

That's easy, " Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ...

Nobody likes the "A" word, but everyone ages. You can have an aging in place master suite that looks like a resort hotel, rather than a rehab hospital room.

I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

The cure to your self is that you are not yours.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.