“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives”

“Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy”

“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis”

“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love”

“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself”

“One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough”