Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

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.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.