"This book, like all books, is a message in a bottle. I know who I am, but I can only guess who you are—the persons who open the bottle, read the message." (2)

"Curiously enough, the formal study of psychology is of less use to a writer than most other studies. Since we ourselves are the objects of investigation, common sense and common knowledge overlap formal psychology almost completely; the behavioral psychologists have taught us something about rats, but not much about people. (The psychologists would probably reply that they are not allowed to experiment on people.) Depth psychology, the psychology of Freud, Jung, and Adler, is an exception to this because it deals with the parts of our psyches that are unconscious." (17)

"'Where do you get your ideas?' It was not a social question; he really, intensely, wanted to know. Most writers have been asked...