If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started