Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

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

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.