My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

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.

Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth, that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.

I enjoy the times of plenteous and endure the times of scarceness.

Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.

My best vacation is your worst nightmare.

I am in the present. I don't think of the past. I don't think of the future.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!