The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.