The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

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 miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.

There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.