One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

I think with my right hand.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.