Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

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.

People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.