“I always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.”

“Van ver achter de heuvelrug kwam de nacht naderbij, daalde over het dal waarin de brede rivier zijn machtige loop zocht, en kroop zachtjes naar de stad.”

“There are several cats smoothly moving about, which helped me greatly to relax, for I have always felt that no house is wholly bad where there are cats, and conversely, where there are several cats, a house is bound to be wonderfully charming.”

“Facts are often misleading; Rumours on the contrary , true or false, are often revealing.”

“Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.”

“As soon as I hate something, I ask myself why I like it so much.”

“People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.”