I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

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.

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

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

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.