A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

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

To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.