I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.