“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”
“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”
“Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.”
“Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.”
“Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.”
“America's obsession with defining homosexuality by its third syllable contrasts sharply with more human exercises from Europe.”