War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

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.