“I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.”

“Like you, I have often wondered why fears reign at night. After twenty years of such wondering, I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like stars - always there, but obscured by the glare of daylight.”

“Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.”

“The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.”

“The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.”

“Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.”

“What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)”