If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.