Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

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 I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.

I have to find out who I am before my doubts discover it first.

I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.