Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

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.

OSHA's lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work.

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

All right, big guy, down you go." Oh,yeah. Bed. Bed was good. "And look who's here. It's Nurse Vishous.

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?