I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.