Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

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.

Always do good when you're tempted to do evil. The reward in doing good is priceless.

You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.""Sure, " I said. "I'd believe anything. Including nightmares." "What's the matter? Feel low?""Low as hell.

Only when you decide to truly live can you be free of your fears, and only when you are free of your fears can you truly live.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean.