Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I tricked myself into doing this movie.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.