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

Transgression is a quest for solitude

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

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.

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

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

You write to find out what you believe.