The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

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.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.