I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

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.

Why do I feel like this is our destiny. There must be a reason why we have become our characters.

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.

Data is the next Intel Inside.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'