How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

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.

What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.

War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.

True love is still true, even if you can't live it the way you want to, " I told her.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.