The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.