There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

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

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

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.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.