The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.