We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.