Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

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.

The soul that knows it soul is sacred.

The life of the law has not been logic

I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.

She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.