Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

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.

Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.