Most people are boring and stupid.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.