A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

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

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

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