The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

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.

This is the true alchemy - the transformation of fear into love. It's available to all of us. It can save the world.

Satan’s chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God.

Sometimes fantasy provides the only reasonable explanation for life's inexplicable moments.

Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them.

There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of." Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.