Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.