Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.