"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me"
"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent"
"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy"
"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition"
"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine"
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""
"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture"
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind"
"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be"
"Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake"
"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness"
"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization"
"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water"
"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice"
