We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

If children could, if adults knew.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.