As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.

Keep calm and live

With love, nothing is impossible.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.