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.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

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

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.