There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.