Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

Words are for those with promises to keep.