The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.

What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.

When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.