When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

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.

Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.

In this hospitable world it is much harder to be unsuccessful than successful.

In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult

Although we didn't invite Lucinda, she arrived anyway-with a gift. "No need," Char and I chimed together. "Remember when you were a squirrel," Mandy said.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

This is no time to make new enemies.