The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

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

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.

I am not for women but against men.