Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'