Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

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.

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.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

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