“The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.”

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn’t tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.