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

The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’

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

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

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.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

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