A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

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.

If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

I was the one that got him [Barack Obama] to produce the birth certificate. And I think I did a good job.

If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.

Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.

People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words].

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.