But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.