“It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.”

“What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature with claws.”

“What's it like?""Death? It's like being on holiday with a group of Germans.”

“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”

“The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.from "Disappearance of Literature”

“its difficult to dislike a man who takes pleasure in giving away free beer.”