What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.