The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.