Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

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.

Starlight is best felt at noon...

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

Of two evils choose the less.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

Keep in touch without touching

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

I like my job. That's become very clear to me. I know how to pretend to do things that I otherwise didn't know how to do.