 It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. |
| Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. |
| Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. |
| My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. |
| I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. |
| Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. |
| A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. |
| Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. |
| Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. |
| Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. |
| Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. |
| I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. |
| The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. |
| Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. |
| A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! |
| I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. |
| Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. |
| Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. |
| Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? |
| Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. |
