Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.