Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

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

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]