I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

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.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

To conquer anxiety, love everything and fear nothing.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

People voted for Donald Trump. They want to repeal and replace ObamaCare. And we will.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.