The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

A burnt child loves the fire.