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.

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

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.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.