Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

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.

Well written and easy to enjoy." executive director of Association of Science and Technology Museums

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

A committee of three gets things done if two dont show up.

The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come. (Moon Called)

A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.