Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

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.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

If I would've fought Andre Ward in my prime, I would've beat him.

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.