A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

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.

Who is the wrong person to criticise?You

She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

'One Night Only,' the words I'll be hearing from my agents when I tell them I'm coming back to Broadway.

The results of recent research on the impacts of climate change dramatically weaken the case for expensive, near-term abatement programs.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.