When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

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

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

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

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.