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

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

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

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

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

Transgression is a quest for solitude

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.’