Albert Ellis

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.