Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

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