You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.