It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.