One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

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

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

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.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.