When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

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

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.