Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?