But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

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.

We should not look for more in others, Rather find more within ourselves

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS.

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

I'm very good at being out of work.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Take care of each other. Share your energies with the group. No one must feel alone, cut off, for that is when you do not make it.