If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

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

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

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.