Talent Is Often A Defect

Anesthesia: Wounds Without Pain. Neurasthenia: Pain Without Wounds.

Morality Is The Tendency To Pour Out The Baby With The Bathwater.

When I Don't Make Any Progress, It Is Because I Have Bumped Into The Wall Of Language. Then I Draw Back With A Bloody Head. And Would Like To Go On.

A Good Stylist Should Have Narcissistic Enjoyment As He Works. He Must Be Able To Objectivize His Work To Such An Extent That He Catches Himself Feeling Envious And Has To Jog His Memory To Find That He Is Himself The Creator. In Short, He Must Display That Highest Degree Of Objectivity Which The World Calls Vanity.

I Would Have Stage-fright If I Had To Speak With Every One Of The People Before Whom I Speak.