Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

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.

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