If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.