The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

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

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.