In Treatment

Alex: If you hold on to this organ... called guilt feelings... And I believe that's what it is. It's an organ. Like the spleen or liver. The system will cut it out of you completely. Understand? I have no way of feeling guilt anymore. I don't have the organ.

Alex: You know, my father killed his father with his bare hands. Yeah. And that's a fact. Man, I'd love to see him on this couch. Man, doc, you'd have a field day with him.

Alex: Michaela even farts once a year on a fixed date. Once a year on the night after Easter Sunday she farts. She lets herself fart once, maybe twice, a little one, not that much. Then it's over. No farting for the rest of the year.

Alex: (talking about his wife) Now it's the first time I ever saw her grind her teeth in her sleep. And I'm talking something sick, frightening. The sound that came out of her mouth... How do you... You could cut diamonds between her teeth, okay? It really fucked me up.

Alex: I'm telling you, he [father] always used to say, 'Leave the guilt for the white man. We can't afford it.'