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.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.