That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sent….

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for wha….

I read like the flame reads the wood..

The world is made of sugar and dirt..

Cultivate your Futurism. I'll cultivate my Döblinism..

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not ….

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it..

No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the….

I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself ev….

Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house….

The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck..

Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of l….

In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. In….

The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate it,….

But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, ….

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment..

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being..

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner..

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest..

My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned..