I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

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.

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you.

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of these fields of attention.

Quit dwelling on the negative things people have said about you. You don’t have to have everyone’s approval. You have God’s approval.

Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.