There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

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.

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

Transgression is a quest for solitude

Keep yourself as busy as you can. Try and forget. But even with 7 billion other distractions... you don't forget me.

Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.