My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

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.

The difference between your friend and your best friend is that your friend asks, ‘Are you are ok?’ and your best friend asks, ‘Do you want to talk about it?

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

As long as one suffers one lives.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity