Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

United Nations is an organization of global neighbors. I really wanted to be here to raise our voices together to our leaders to do more for our brothers and sisters who are poor.

The fight to end Global Poverty goes beyond today, goes beyond this week. The Millennium Development Goals seek to put an end to extreme poverty, where people live on less than $1 a day,

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Freud changes our reading habits.

It is the link between satisfaction and redress–the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy–that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire–make it literally...

In Freud’s story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can’t let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do – we can’t...

If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood...

Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.