There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.