The really important thing is not to reject anything.

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.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

What do you think you're doing?

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

The game is meant to be fun.

I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.

Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

Satisfaction is the death of ambition.

People who are under certain stress have aquariums. Aquariums are classically either a reproduction of nature or a decorative element, like the ones you can see in big hotels.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.