If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.