To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

Talent is often a defect in character.