Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.