The position of the hysterical subject is that he or she always guesses what is behind the curtain, that is why such a subject usually ends up [...] giving up on love.

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.

We still can't control the consequences our choices will bring. Not only do we want freedom of choice, but we also want a guarantee that whatever we choose will be exactly as we envisioned it.

We constantly feel stressed, overwhelmed and guilty.It's our own fault if we're unhappy. It means we made a bad decision.

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack.

I do have the power. I can decide for myself what I want, even if the thought stresses me out.

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

We are not self-caused little gods.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

My biggest faux pas is not giving time for myself.

He's probably the world's most beautiful looking man, yet he doesn't think he's that gorgeous. And to me, he's just smelly, farty Leo.

...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.

Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.