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.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

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.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.