Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

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

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

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

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access