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.

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

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.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.