I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Without love we fall ill.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Christmas is the alcoholidays