...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

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.

You are soft person you said. But you're soft as shit: it is very soft but stinking!

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

Even though we've devoted our lives to music, we both know that the most important things happen without a soundtrack.

Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Was he a good father?"To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No, " I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man."Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.

Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

Did you forget me? Or are you too scared to tell me that you met me in fear that I won't remember?

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.