Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

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.

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.

I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

There are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?