The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

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.

God will not come from Heaven to help us, but He’ll use the people around us for that

if onlyour tongueswere made of glasshow muchmore carefulwe would bewhen wespeak

Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.

Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.