After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

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

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.