I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

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.

Every sin can be forgiven by the heavenly Father.

The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

Never aim to be proactive with your day. That way, if you end up getting stuff done, you’re never disappointed.

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.