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

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.

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

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.

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

Just so you know, I’ve trusted you since camp.

The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.

The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.

Let things taste of what they are.

When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?

If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.

I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.

Some people need God and some people need science.