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.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

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

We must love or we grow ill.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.