"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy – to be someone who is brisk about their food and work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the no…"

"The true humorist does not want to be a humorist, but an earnest man."

"A man who cannot weep is a man who cannot laugh."

"The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that."

"The most dangerous of all delusions is that you are not deluded."