When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

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 drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.

Where there is darkness, let me be the light. Where there is suffering, let me be kind and compassionate.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

You cant have justice unless you have truth.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

That which builds is better than that which is built.