“But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.”

“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)”

“It is only the failure of my plots I fear.”

“If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.”

“Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.”

“He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.”

“It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.”