Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

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.

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

Transgression is a quest for solitude

Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it.

Jesus didn’t die to save me from God. Jesus died to save me from myself.

Everyone always believes him to be the person they think he is, which in truth is no one

Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

Once you are ready to truly devote your days and times to what your soul came here to do, you will find your life unimaginably enriched.