On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.