I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.