One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

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.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Fate goes ever as fate must.

Sleeping was her latest discovery. 'It's so wonderful. One simply shuts one's eyes, that's all. It's so delicious.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

Your woman wears underwear out in public,” Sabin said. “Must be nice. How’d you manage that little miracle?” “Only the Deity knows.

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

I'm married to my fans. I Love you all

She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.