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.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

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