Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

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.

A peaceful mind is the source of all joy and all happiness.

Sometimes, ” she whispered, her lips brushing his cheek, “you need to be lost in order to be found.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.