My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

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.

I am burning within with an immeasurable, indescribable endless joy of life.

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.

All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

I'm working in my mind.

...and whenever I had menstral cramps, I could just pretend that Voldemort was close.

One of the greatest human longings is to be close to someone.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?