My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.