Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.