It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

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.

A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.

her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - somewhere I cannot know.

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.