I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

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

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