To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

The fatal futility of Fact.

He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.