"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."

"What is the good of a book without pictures or conversations?"

"I have had a great deal of experience with people, and I have found that they are all the same, only in different ways."

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."