On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.