The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

There are no mistakes.

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

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.