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.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

Medicine: "Your money and your life!

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

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

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.