Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

The complex develops out of the simple.

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.