To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
Medicine: "Your money and your life!
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.