Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

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've tried to solve problems to the best of my knowledge. Many times I was successful, but sometimes I also failed. And now I finally understand – that's life.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

Have you sipped your poems today?

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I finished a marathon.

And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.