I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

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.

I am really thankful to the audiences that they have appreciated all my songs and I have managed to touch their soul.

I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

And it can be a way of healing.

You can know you're a Christian if, not are you dealing with your sin before God but is God dealing with you about your sin.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.