Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

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.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.