Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

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

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.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.