I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable 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.

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

The quality of your thoughts and the state of your mind will define how happy you are as a person. Happiness in your life comes from the way you think!

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

If you try to look But you don't touch Then you won't touch But you'll never feel And if you don't feel You'll never cry And if you don't cry Then you'll never heal.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.