If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.