Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

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.

Where it comes from I don't know. Is it a gift? I don't know. But with perseverance you are sure to always end up on the winning side.

The Toyota plowed headlong into the boy. But there was no impact. No screams, no blood, no bending metal.The boy simply dematerialized in a swirl of white light.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.

God does not believe in our God.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

You should have seen the look on your skull.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.