Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

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.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.