The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

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.

Home is the one place in the world where you are safe from feeling put down or out, unentitled, or unwanted.

Welcome to Thistle Bend

When you use your mind to grow yourself, education doesn't come into it.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

My campaign filed the bill back in 2002 in the Democratic legislature, 85% Democratic, they could have prevented any possibility of a split vote.