Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

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.

Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.

Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.

Please come out so I can see your face, " Darcy said. There was a smile in Thorn's voice when he said, "I gave my jeans to Warrick. I'm no' shy, lass, but I doona want to embarrass Warrick.

All truly great art is propaganda.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.

It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.

Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start building apps for our bodies.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.