Sigmund Freud — "The creative writer is a valuable ally of the analyst."

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

"The libido is the energy, regarded as a quantitative magnitude, of those instincts which have to do with all that may be comprised under the word 'love.'"

"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."

"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…"

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and enable us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality an…"