There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.