Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

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.

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

...the hardest word to swallow is almost.

Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

He who comes first, eats first.

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.