Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.