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.

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.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

Don't be afraid to express to the world about how you feel... Ask Donald Trump.

Change is a slow process. Keep going toward your goals. When you feel like giving up, remember how good it will feel to change your life into the wonderful life you have imagined.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.

You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.

When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think.

Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

You must emulate the truth you exhort.