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

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

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

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

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.