Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

The map is not the territory.

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Words don't mean, people mean.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

Always give your best

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.

If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I have received plenty of carrots. Now I also have a keen interest in women who like Lamborghinis.

Europe was founded as a community bound together by solidarity.

I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.