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

“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.”

“Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.”

“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'.”

“Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.”

“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”

“When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?”