The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

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.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

A Wise Mind Makes a Wise Heart

You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

If you believe, you can achieve - thats my motto!

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

What you do as president has consequences.