The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion