He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

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.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

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

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