If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

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.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.