A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

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

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

Oh, boy, " Jim said, giving an excited wiggle. "Cat fight! Wish I had some popcorn.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.

Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

I love polarizing people.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept