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.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

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

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