"There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniabl…"

"Conquered people tend to be witty."

"All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to ma…"

"We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make wh…"

"We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals."

"I think that New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administrative center of American c…"

"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door."

"Once you had read the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, you knew that everyday life was psychopathology."

"I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag."

"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."