The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

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.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

There is no easy way to the journey of life. Those who follow the easy road cannot fully appreciate life.

Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

When the BCS started, a decision was made collectively, as coaches, that the BCS champion would receive our championship and our trophy. It's as simple as that.

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.