Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

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

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.