That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

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

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

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