Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

How can one know anything at all about people?

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are.