It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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.

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

The whole world seemed to be wounded, broken, hurting.

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't

User experience is important to strategy.

The Church of Rome, the Pope has always said, 'Seek peace.'

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

A story is built on characters and reasons.