The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.