The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

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

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.