The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

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

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.