To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

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.

I think that 'God' would have a devil of a time if he was here on Earth.

Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home.

Weird is my personality, Complicated are my words and Mystery I am but those what gets you to like me.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

America is a country of young men.

Eager for bread and love.

No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.

I like getting up early. I get up around five.

Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials.