When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

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.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.