What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

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.

If you can be, be yourself.

Parsely is gharsley.

You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.

Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.