Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

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.

Violence is the power of the state

Berg paid his way with stories.

Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.