Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.