...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.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

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

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.