In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

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.

Sheep and goats and cowsgather 'round a manger bedto awe at a babe.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

If you’re trying to Seduce me, Vane, you’re a bit late. At his point I’m pretty much a sure thing for you.

Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.