I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

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 passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

By the end of my thirties I was a mental and physical wreck!

You should always trust the instincts of children.

Whiners usually play alone.

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

Hillary Clinton should be applauded for her willingness to serve publicly.

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.