I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.

To be is to be vulnerable.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.