Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

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 pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

We have met the enemy and have asked them over later for drinks and dancing.

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.