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.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

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

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.