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.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.