“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”

“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives”

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

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

“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured”

“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels”