The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

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

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.