Progress … has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools. - Karl Kraus

Everyone is stopped and waiting, maitre d's, hansom cab drivers and governments. Everyone's waiting for the end. Let's hope the apocalypse is pleasant, Your Highness.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping something might improve if I viewed all sides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and be able use one's prejudice as an excuse.

I hear noises which others don't hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don't hear either.