Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.
Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.
Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.
Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.