It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

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.

Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.

Your little child is the only true democrat.

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.