No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.