Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

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