Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.