A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

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.

Hurt me back when I hurt you and I would always love you for it.

They make only progress. Instead of revenge, self progress is more safe to downgrade others including enemy.

Be intentionally infectious. Make your brand contagiously buzz worthy.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.