There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

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