Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

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.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us - it's the spirit within us.

No one has patience for love except their own.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.