Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

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 can only run the rate in which my heart beats.

I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.

It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much.

If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.