War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

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 wish you a beautiful blessed Father’s Day.

Each creature is a unique piece of art to be respected and believed in. once we realise this, equality follows.

I also packed explosives." -Liz

People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.

I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.

But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.