The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

If youth knew; if age could.

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.