Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.