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

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

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

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.

Be the calm in someone else’s storm.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

Obesity is now a problem in the navy. They've created a new rank: Really Big Rear Admiral.

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.