If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.