You write to find out what you believe.

Transgression is a quest for solitude

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.

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

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

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

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.