Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

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

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.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.