Congratulations and bouquets keep pouring in, as if the role of sexuality had been suddenly recognised by His Majesty, the interpretation of dreams confirmed by the Council of Ministers, and the necessity of the psychoanalytic therapy of hysteria carried by a two- thirds majority in Parliament.

-Freud, Sigmund
  Letter to Wilhelm Fliess,11 Mar, describing the public enthusiasm in Vienna that greeted his appointment to an associate professorship at the age of 45.

Writing is a formof therapy; sometimes Iwonder howall these people who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  Ways of Escape, ch.9.