In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.