The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Art is born of humiliation.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.