Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

If my devils are to leave me, I fear my angels will take flight as well.

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.

It is often more beneficial to jog around the psychiatrist's building than to enter - and cheaper than a couch.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.