I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

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.

Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.

I am currently preoccupied with chocolate.

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.