Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

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.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

I always tell people when it's time to make a decision to stay or go [at a job], if it's a difficult decision, you should stay. If it's an easy decision, you should go.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

Bags, and Double Bags!" - Zedd