Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.