One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

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

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.