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

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.