The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.