“I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.”

“There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.”

“If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".”

“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.”

“You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.”

“I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.”

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”