...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

The I is always in the field of the Other.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.