All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

Memory demands an image.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.