Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

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