I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?