“There’s not a single thing in this universe that you can own.”

“The anamnesis of most gall bladder patients is typical. The first serious colic comes after a violent conscious annoyance. Similarly the second and the third, but then the attacks come without annoyance and finally especially after errors in diet.”

“It is more important to know what sort of person has the disease than what kind of disease the person has.”

“The unconscious is terrified by the rage and reacts to avoid it by keeping it repressed and employing physical symptoms to aid in that repression.”

“In place of a true-type people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”