Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head