No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.