Frank Hestvik

“By what psychoanalyst friends tell me, in the field of the emotional subconscious, the emotional resistances to be overcome are no longer the ones most people felt in Freud's [..] day. The moralizing respectability and the fear of sex evidenced in Freud's day no longer exist. I am told that today's resistances come in the form of summary, seemingly pitiless and unrelenting "wild" self-analyses offered up by those who claim to have understood "everything" about themselves.”
― Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds

“(jeg liker godt å ligge i sengen og lytte til bråk, jeg forestiller meg ting, ser alt for meg; det minner meg om den gangen jeg var barn og foreldrene mine festet, jeg ble sendt til sengs, og her ligger jeg og hører lydene av min egen barndom, det er lyden av ensomhet og avstand, det må være fantasiens lyd, kanskje er det også skrivingens lyd)”
― Tomas Espedal, Brev

“Bitch, on that world, was what men called women they were extremely fond of or extremely displeased with when the woman was not there.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

“Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer”
― Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger