A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

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.

I think a lot of people are really scared right now. Not every person makes good choices, and sometimes, when people are scared, there are people who try to take advantage of that fear.

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

Without you my air tastes like nothing. For you I hold my breath.