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

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’

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

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access