It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

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.

She could not leave him hanging like this. “If you were hurt, I need to know.” It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.

What is knowledge without an impact to society?

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

It gives me a good feeling to know that people out there really care.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.