Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

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

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.