I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

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

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

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.