The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

Everyone can afford to give away a smile.