She’s very pretty but she’s honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won’t spread.
At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.
Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
You have to fight for your life. That’s the chief condition on which you hold it.
Art – the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos – art, not politics, is the remedy.
Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
Fidelity is for phonographs.
It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
But she’s a nut, and nuts win.
A man may say, “From now on I’m going to speak the truth.” But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he’s even done speaking.
Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
Facts always are sensational.
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
I am a true adorer of life, and if I can’t reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
If I’m out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you’ve fallen into good hands – someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.