So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

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.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.