Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

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.

...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

Ted Cruz could be president of the United States. If you thought the Secret Service was drinking before

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That's scary. If the smartest guy in the world can't figure out women, we're screwed.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

There's a responsibility level that comes along with being a public figure. I can use this for really cool things. That really [allows] me to be very honest about my experiences.

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.