The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

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.

Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead

People may not see you the way you see yourself. But, that's because they don't want to acknowledge your uniqueness. Jealousy is not disguised.

What if . . . What if I am stupid? Like people say?

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."Computer: "I don't understand-"Issac: "Me neither. Pause

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

The day was cold, and every time the little transparent fans of water swept in and drew back, the wet sand mirrored a clear sky and the sun on its way down.

It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.