In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.