If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

Remember that I too am mortal.