My ignorance is not charming.

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 don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.

We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.

... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.