Psychoanalysis
always looks for the egg
in a basket
that has been lost.
* * *
I sample sin as if it were
the beginning of well-being.
* * *
I don't like Paradise
as they probably don't have obsessions there.
* * *
If God absolves me
he always does so
for insufficient
evidence.
* * *
Everyone is a friend of his own pathology.
* * *
When I raise a toast to madness,
I toast myself as well.
* * *
There are nights that don't
ever happen.
— Translated by Douglas Basford
