A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

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

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.