Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential.
As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.
Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex.
The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.