Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

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 day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within.

You can’t lead people to where you’ve not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

In the big picture we are all eternal.

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

One fan asked me to sign their sock. That was crazy. They just took off their shoe and handed me their sock and asked if I'd sign it.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.