Max Hamilton

“Something in every person objects to acknowledging the fact that he is not even "master in his own house".
The unconscious is un-conscious, and there's no bargaining on that score. The whole analytic therapy is based on the principle of making the unconscious conscious through an emotional therapeutic process, thus changing the unfavorable inner structure. All the misconceptions current about "self-analysis" via book knowledge are empty talk; self-analysis is a fancy word for arriving at wrong conclusions about one's own wonderful self. A psychiatric guide is needed for the descent into one's "inner hell". Psychoanalysis has always had the distinction of presenting unpalatable ideas. This fact is not based on some peculiar predilection of analysts but is inherent in analytic discoveries. Since our science deals with psychic material typically repressed (expelled from consciousness because too painful and shameful to remain conscious) the reaction of the conscious ego is an indignant "no". Facts, however, do not change by simple denial of them.”
― Edmund Bergler, Curable and Incurable Neurotics

“I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.”
― Steven Wright

“If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?”
― Steven Wright

“She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart.”
― Russell Edson