Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.