A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am.

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.

It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don't know them: it turns out that they betray you. It's painful, but it's best to turn the page.

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars

Remember, in the vast infinity of life, all is perfect, whole, and complete... and so are you.