Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.

The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

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