Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.