Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

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

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.