You don't have to believe everything you think.
Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.
Don't be fooled by your own wisdom
To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
I worked my way through law school.
While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.
It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.