Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

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

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

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.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

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