When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.