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.

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

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

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure