The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.

— Eli Siegel

We want people to represent us in politics—and in love and economics too. When people represent us fully, they are ourselves and are not ourselves. When an object is simultaneously the same as and different from the person concerned with it—or considering it—aesthetics is there.

— Eli Siegel