I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

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.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.