The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

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.