“In the Surrealist period, I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world and the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud. Today, the exterior world and that of physics has transcended the one of psychology. My father today is Dr. Heisenberg.”

“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”

“My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.”

“In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.”

“It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly.”

“My father was a career naval officer, as was his father. For hundreds of years, every generation of McCains has served the United States in uniform. My sons serve today, and I'm proud of them. My youngest served in the war that claimed Captain Khan's life as well as in Afghanistan. I want them to be proud of me. I want to do the right thing by them and their comrades.”

“The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. … Psychologically, the father is … replaced by the world of things.”

“That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”

“It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.”

“My mother groan'd! my father wept.
Into the dangerous world I leapt:
Helpless, naked, piping loud:
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.”