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.

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

I am glad that I do not have any children.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.