It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

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.

Medicine: "Your money and your life!

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.