when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

But then, people usually do miss what's right in front of them.

I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.

I'd gladly stop working if someone can prove that stupid chatter will maake my day.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.