One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

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

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

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