Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

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

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.