Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.