Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

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.

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

Life is the greatest sacred existence.

Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.

In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.

Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.