The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.