It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

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.

The secret of happiness is unconditional acceptance.

The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

You don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need.

My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.