The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

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.

Connecting our hearts through love yields a nectar so sweet we are forever full.

Reason is powerless when we express love with empathy and kindness.

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.

I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?

As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought.

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

I bought the sweetness with this pain.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.