And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.