There’s a lot of degradation in sex, isn’t there?”
“When it’s done right.

What was marriage but sex plus property.

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.

The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.