Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.