Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

The I is always in the field of the Other.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Not all marriages are made in heaven. Some, probably most, are constructed here on earth for any number of reason.

Awakening others is an impossible endeavor until I myself am awakened.

Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?''I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?''Elvish.

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

Ideas are incestuous.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.

Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.