Writing is a mysterious activity.

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.

Beautiful thoughts in your mind created your life and made you kind.

The courage to dream, the courage to act.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I personally don't believe anything is impossible. With enough determination and effort, almost everything is possible.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.