Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

Transgression is a quest for solitude

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

When I stopped playing hockey and started acting, the last person I was going to ask for help was my dad. He's the king of being like, 'I don't know. It's good work if you can get it. Good luck.'

I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset." Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.