Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

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.

He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

Pretty soon, we should see a few large regional blocs dominating global trade. The ones that lower trade barriers faster will grow faster...

We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

America needs a president who can fix the economy because he understands the economy, and I do and I will.

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you

'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.