One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

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.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

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

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.