Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Fantasy isn't something you run out of.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.