"The aim of psychoanalysis is to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the super-ego, to widen its field of perception and enlarge its organization, so that it can appropriate fresh portio…"

"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I myself have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

"The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously—that is, he invests it with a great deal of affect—though he separates it sharply fr…"