A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.