What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.