There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

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.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.