“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”

“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an artist without being neurotic. Again I found in them that inner conflict which is characteristic of modern man: the conflict between a right intuition (namely, that their vocation has fundamental importance for the destiny of humanity) and a false idea (namely, that art is superfluous luxury).”

“Sublime natures are seldom clean!”

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”

“Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.”

“Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.”