"I trim my opponents to fit my arrows."

"Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former."

"Everyone is stopped and waiting, maitre d's, hansom cab drivers and governments. Everyone's waiting for the end. Let'…"

"There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way."

"What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?"

"Der Fortschritt feiert Pyrrhussiege über die Natur."

"Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace."

"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness which claims to be its own cure. (Vienna, 1972)"

"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence."

"If I return some people's greetings, I do so only to give them their greeting back."