A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

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

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

The goal of all life is death