Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

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 first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.

My hair takes a while to get right, I use wax to get it to stand up.

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

When energy speeds up there is no space for playing small, and nothing can remain hidden.

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else