The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

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.

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

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.