What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

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.

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.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

I'm a really big believer - this is not a statement about President [Barack] Obama, but whoever is president - that good policy is really important.

One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

No more chances, Golden Eyes. You’re mine and I’ll draw blood to enforce my claim.

A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.

Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.