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

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.

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

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one.

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.

Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.