Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

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.