Clutter is found in so many shapes and sizes. We can find it on our kitchen tables, under our beds, in our cars, and in our heads.
Clutter is a weight that has built on top of you so gradually, you don't even realize anymore that it is holding you down.
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
A Collection is dead when it is a collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed!.
A Collection is always more than is necessary. It is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites because it is already too much. The collector's need is precisely for excess, for surfeit, for profusion. It's too much and it's just enough for the collector.
Guilt is the attempt of your psyche to express the good intentions you never really had.
Guilt is a crooked, intricate, inconstant, and various thing; innocence is plain, direct, and simple
Guilt is an existential structure not to be understood as some psychological feeling that one gets when one transgresses some moral code.
Guilt is phenomenological, meaning it is not the result of the transgression of this or that code, but the a priori condition for there to be moral codes.
13 concepts in this pillow book.