Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

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.

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.