The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

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

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

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