There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

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.

Chase the story behind the stock, not the money on the table. Money will make you rich, but the story will make you wealthy.

When I saw you, I discovered love!

Often I didn’t think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.

The more you know the more you need to learn.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars.

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.