I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

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 deeper you go in ministry, the more the enemy wants to be an irritant in your marriage.

In the pursuit of goals, you cannot give up anytime you feel uncomfortable.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

start with one true thing

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

I do not believe that Donald Trump is a member of the Alt- right.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.