Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

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

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.