In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Look forward with confidence and backwards with attitude.

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

The peak of empathogens can be characterised as earthly paradise in comparison to the heavenly paradise of LSD and hallucinogens of that category.

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

I'm a very kind of personable person and I love people.

Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.

I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.