If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally