“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.”

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

The goal of all life is death.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.

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

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

Those of us who don’t have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading “Confused.

I’ll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I’ll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.