The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

In a nutshell: if freedom visualised by the Enlightenment and demanded/promised by Marx was made to the measure of the ideal producer; the market-promoted freedom is designed with the ideal consumer in mind; neither of the two is "more genuine" than the other.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.