The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.