We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.