Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.