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

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

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.