One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

Those who fail to understand mystery are doomed to crack it

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.

In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.

Wrong way down a one-way, women don't get saved 'round me even on a Sunday.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.

When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.