A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
Not greeting people isn’t enough. One also doesn’t greet people one doesn’t know.
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.
Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.
A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
Morality is a burglar’s tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.
They judge lest they be judged.
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.