Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.