Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

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.

Communication is the breath or death of any relationship

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Courage is the right disposition toward fear.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.

My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.