Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.