"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing onese..." — Karl Kraus

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.