My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

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.

Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

If you give up, you reward failure.

A champion is someone who sweats to exhaustion, even when no one else is watching

I only count the hours that shine.

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.

If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.

I don't care how fancy you wrap trash, it's still trash.

Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.