The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.