What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.