One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

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.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

Every war is a war against children.

Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.

This election result has increased people's faith in democracy.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question.