Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
. . . Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.
All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.
It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.
What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships