The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

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.

An optimist is a braver cynic.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

Hillary Clinton has had a very rough experience with Benjamin Netanyahu.

I’m so confused it almost feels calm.

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.