“From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.”

“Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.”

“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer created only one novel; throw away the individual bindings and the whole of each man's writing constituted one book: the true and complete portrait of himself. An artist had one thing to say, and one only; he might flail about, seek new techniques, forms, colour combinations, subjects, but intrinsically he would always paint the same canvas, write the same book.”

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

“After all, the world is still great.”

“Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.”

“Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.”