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

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.