Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

Sincerity is technique.

Art is born of humiliation.

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.