Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

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.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.