Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
I am not for women but against men.
I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.
The real truths are those that can be invented.
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.
A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.
Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
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