“Ego is the world's worst narcotic”

“A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.”

“In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.”

“Books are a narcotic.”

“Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat.”

“You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised”