Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

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

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

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

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.