Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.