Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.